DDD hangs on start on 11.1-R

[Trond Endrestøl]

On Sat, 3 Mar 2018 18:09+0100, Holm Tiffe wrote:

> can anyone get ddd get to work in 11.1-R or stable?

I've more or less given up on devel/ddd, since it relies on the old 
pty subsystem, now replaced by the new pts subsystem, to communicate 
with gdb.

I build custom kernels containing "device pty", but I'm not sure if 
that directive is being honoured these days.

It's a shame, 'cos ddd is very good at visualizing data structures.
Maybe it's possible to patch ddd to use pts instead of pty.

Going back to 10.x could be a workaround.

> It seems that ddd from the ports is hanging while trying to get a
> connection to gdb, tried the system gdb and the gdb-8.0.1 from the
> ports.
> What's happening here?

-- 
Trond.